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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






2. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






3. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






4. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






5. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






6. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






7. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






8. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






9. A character struggles against some outside force.






10. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






11. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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12. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






13. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






14. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






15. The selection of words in a literary work.






16. The person who 'tells' the story.






17. A short saying with a moral.






18. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






19. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






20. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






21. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






22. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






23. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






24. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






25. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






26. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






27. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






28. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






29. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






30. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






31. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






32. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






33. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






34. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






35. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






36. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






37. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






38. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






39. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






40. The organizational form of a literary work.






41. A strong pause within a line.






42. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






43. Broken down acts.






44. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






45. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






46. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






47. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






48. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






49. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






50. The conversation of characters in a literary work.